Beneath the Opera House in Paris, somewhere in the dark labyrinths hidden from public view, the Phantom lurks, watching and waiting. In his crazed obsession to further the career of a beautiful young singer, he will stop at nothing - not even murder. This 75th anniversary edition contains a foreword by Peter Haining, which introduces the larger-than-life character of author Gaston Leroux and traces the history of the Phantom - its basis in fact, the novel's poor reception yet its astonishing success in the cinema and theatre. There is also a special appendix in which a speculation links the Phantom to Sherlock Holmes. Cover art by Mark Teague.
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Disturbing tales - and disturbing authors! - in this volume: George and Alice and Isabel, William Trevor; Gone Is Gone, Joan Fleming; The Margenes, Miriam Allen deFord; Mummy To The Rescue, Angus Wilson; Miss Cornelius, William Fryer Harvey; The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot, Ambrose Bierce; The Phantom Of The Screen, Lawrie Wyman; The Book, Margaret Irwin; The Man Who Collected Poe, Robert Bloch; The Squaw, Bram Stoker; The Small World of Lewis Stillman, William F. Nolan; The Attic Express, Alex Hamilton; Mr George, August Derleth; I Used To Live Here Once, Jean Rhys. Disturbing cover art by Rus Anderson.
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This volume contains three of Russell's best-known horror tales: Sanguinarius: Count Ferencz Nadasdy - Charming, handsome, irresistible...and depraved beyond redemption as he indulges in fiendish rites. Sardonicus: The hideously afflicted master of a remote, dungeon-dark castle. Sagittarius: Laval - a monstrous actor in plays of torture and death, plays that become terrifyingly real... -
While known for his chidlren's stories Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, Dahl also wrote some dark twisters for adults. He has been described as in the style of Ray Bradbury. Some of these tales are quirky and fun; some are chillers and some are dark...Poison; The Sound Machine; Georgy Porgy; Genesis And Catastrophe; The Hitch-hiker; The Umbrella Man; Mr. Botibol; Vengeance is Mine Inc.; The Butler. -
Book II City of Night. They are nearly indestructible. They are stronger, heal faster and think faster than any humans ever created - and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios - once known as Frankenstein - can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time monster and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect human - and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/frankenstein-dead-and-alive/ -
Insomnia: Stephen King
$7.00At first, Ralph found it hard to drop off to sleep. Then he was waking up earlier and earlier. Then the hallucinations start - colours, shapes and strange auras around his friends. Not to mention the bald doctors who always seem to materialise at the scene of a death. Then Ralph begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend Ed is getting dangerously out of control and why his home town is about to become the new Armageddon. An evil of unimaginable proportions has found its way in - and Ralph has one chance to beat it - in a card game. The stakes are high - they always are when you're playing for human souls. This was a new phase of writing for King: his heroes in this outing are the elderly retired Ralph and his middle-aged girlfriend. Cover art by Steven Crisp.
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Ashton wasn't a big important town, yet it was here that three very different characters would face the hardest tests of their lives. Marshall, an ex-city newspaper editor with an eye for a story and a nose for something rotten; Hank, the young pastor of a small church in danger of tearing itself apart and Tal, captain of the angelic warriors summoned to make a stand against an encroaching tide of evil. They had to face a callous, clever, sleepless enemy and they would need each other more than would dare to believe. Cover art by Vic Mitchell. -
Halloween Street, Steve Rasnic Tem: Laura is a strange little girl who prefers to watch the street from her window. When she wants to go trick-or treating, her parents are hopeful at this 'normal' behaviour...if only...Others, James Herbert: A P.I. searching for a missing baby follows the clues to a mysterious nursing home, where he discovers the dark secret of the Others... Growing Things, T. E. D. Klein: Herb is fascinated by the letters pages in a pile of of old home handyman magazines - especially 'Mr Fixit's' solution for a correspondent who has a strange lump growing under his bathroom floor. Unhasped, David J. Schow: Now married, Ethan looks for a hiding place for his safe key - he doesn't want his wife finding his box of bachelor-days memorabilia. He finds the ideal place - and there's already a key hanging there, a key to another box of memories...The Emperor’s Old Bones, Gemma Files: An abandoned boy and a streetwise young woman form an unlikely alliance in wartime Shanghai - which will be tested over a challenge to prepare the carp dish The Emperor's Old Bones. The Entertainment, Ramsey Campbell: A teacher searching for accommodation on a rainy night thinks he's found a suitable place to stay - even if the old lady there thinks he is the 'entertainment'... Harlequin Valentine, Neil Gaiman: It's Valentine's Day, and naughty, impish Harlequin pins his heart to the door of the girl he loves...but has he offered his heart too readily? The Stunted House, Terry Lamsley: A holidaying couple find the porch of an abandoned seafront house the ideal place to stop for lunch - at first...Just Like Eddy, Kim Newman: Edgar Allan Poe hates his middle name - he associates it with his successful father. Then as his work begins to be known, the regular misspelling of it gives him the belief that Edgar Allen Poe is a doppelganger out to destroy him...The Long Hall On The Top Floor, Caitlin R. Kiernan: Silvey is disturbed in his park bench reading and gin-nipping by a lad who wants to know if it's true that Silvey is psychic - because if he is, he's got something for Silvey to see...Lulu, Thomas Tessier: A man discovers his grandfather was friendly with writer Joseph Roth - a friendship which grew to include the mysterious Sonja. The Ballyhooly Boy, Graham Masterton: Jerry inherits a run-down, grubby house from a lady he certainly never knew - a house which, though empty, rings with screams...Welcome, Michael Marshall Smith: Paul finds a file on his PC - which was created in 1957. To add to the mystery, he finds an odd newspaper on his train trip home from work. Burden, Michael Marano: A gay man impulsively engages in unprotected sex - and finds that he can see the ghosts of friends who succumbed to the AIDS virus. Naming the Dead, Paul J. McAuley: Psychic detective Carlyle can see all the imps and beasties of doubt and anxieties that cling to us - but when he is hired to track down a killer recently released from prison, it seems something doesn't want the man to be found. Aftershock, F. Paul Wilson: A doctor is fascinated by the extraordinary claims of a patient who has been hit by lightning - and who wants to be hit again. A Fish Story, Gene Wolfe: Three friends on a fishing trip exchange ghost stories around the fire - and one has a very impressive story. Jimmy, David Case: A small sleepy town is terrorised by a violent attacker with long nails, a mask-like face with sulphuric eyes - and a rapacious passion for teenage girls. White, Tim Lebbon: A raging virus has destroyed most of the world's population and a fierce winter smothers most of the land under deep snow. If that weren't bad enough, a small group of survivors bunking in an abandoned mansion have to deal with a more immediate threat emerges from out of the wilds, an otherworldly threat that is as bloodthirsty and vicious as it is cunning and cruel. Pork Pie Hat, Peter Straub: A student secures a private interview with ailing jazz musician, Hat, hoping to sell the interview to a magazine with the hope of bringing Hat to the attention of a wider audience. But Hat passes away. The interview is published...leaving out a very interesting part of Hat's childhood. Tricks And Treats One Night on Halloween Street, Steve Rasnic Tem: A collection of Hallowe'en scenes including Ronald, a young lad who answers the door to a trick or treater who seems to be wearing a mask of Ronald's face...Cover art by Julek Heller. -
Book III of Otherworld. Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world's most powerful elite organizations - the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige's wildest antics can't hold a candle to those of her new charge- an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil... and evil is all too willing to claim her. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the supernatural underworld. They are a vicious group who will do anything to woo the young, malleable, and extremely powerful neophyte, including commit murder - and frame Paige for the crime. It's an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, and the brutal side of magic that Paige will have to do everything within her power to make sure they both survive.
